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!diff — Finding lines that are the same between 2 files

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Someone asked if there was a way for diff to only show lines that are the same between 2 files. A little digging in the manpage for gnu diff got me this nice result:

diff --unchanged-line-format=%L --old-line-format= --new-line-format= FILE1 FILE2

This seems to work… but i’m open to other suggestions

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April 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

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  1. An ex collegue came up with the following, which also works quite nice (and is a lot easier)

    $ comm -1 -2 FILE1 FILE2

    comm is part of gnu coreutils

    Maniac

    20 Apr 09 at 21:31

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